Details

Subject(s)

• Persian poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic countries—17th century [Browse]
• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—17th century [Browse]

Contains

• Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, approximately 1253-1325. Khamsah. [Browse]
• امىر خسرو دهلوى، approximately 1253-1325. خمسه. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of Niẓāmī Ganjavī's five epic poems; with the Khamsah of Amīr Khusraw in the margins, except for the Hasht Bihisht which occupies the full page following the Khamsah of Niẓāmī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• On front cover: Label reading "115" in Arabic script.
• On spine: Label reading "571" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 23 lines per page, in four columns; written in small nastaʻliq in black on beige glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text, columns, and headings framed in gold, with outer frame of blue and gold enclosing the marginal text. Fol. 27b, 94b, 146b, 197b, 273b have spaces left for ʻunwāns that were not filled in. Headings in red. Marginal text written on a diagonal. First folio somewhat damaged (mostly marginal) and pasted onto a new leaf. Paper repairs to other leaves, mostly toward the beginning and end of text block; text unaffected. Light smudging and damp staining; some pages foxed. In good condition.
• Decoration: Illuminated ʻunwān on fol. 1b in gold, blue and red with text framed in the same colors.
• Origin: Copy completed in 1060 H. [1650] (fol. 339b).

Binding note

Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and corner designs. Leather doublures; doublures and covers have gold-stamped and gold-tooled fillets.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• fol. 1b-27a: [Makhzan al-asrār]
• fol. 27b-94a: [Khusraw va Shīrīn]
• fol. 94b-146a: [Haft Paykar]
• fol. 146b-197a: [Laylī va Majnūn]
• fol. 197b-273a: [Sharafnāmah, part 1 of Iskandarnāmah]
• fol. 273b-314b: [Iqbālnāmah, part 2 of Iskandarnāmah]
• fol. 314b-339b: [Hasht bihisht].
• In the margins: fol. 1b-74a: [Maṭla ʻal-anvār]
• fol. 74a-163a: [Shīrīn va Khusraw]
• fol. 163b-219a: [Majnūn Laylī]
• fol. 219b-314b: [Āʼīnah-i Iskandarī].

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Provenance

Fol. 339b: Several owner's stamps, including one of Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Muḥammad. Note dated Ramaḍān 1140 H. [1727 or 8].

OCLC

754186432

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